Tag: NASA
NASA and ULA launch ICESat-2 rocket to track changes in Earth’s ice measurements
NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) successfully launched from California at 9:02 a.m. today, embarking on its mission to measure the ice of Earth’s frozen reaches with unprecedented […]
NASA launching ICESat-2, advanced laser will measure earth’s changing ice levels
This September, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure – in unprecedented detail – changes in the heights of […]
Journey to touch the sun: NASA launches Parker Solar Probe
While most of the U.S. was still asleep and hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida in the early morning hours […]
Increased Antarctic ice loss speeding up the rise of sea levels globally
On June 13, a new assessment released by NASA in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) revealed that ice losses in Antarctica have tripled since 2012, resulting in increased […]
NASA ‘Planet Hunter’ has launched
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched yesterday on a first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life. TESS, expected to find thousands […]
NASA launch scheduled to study ‘Heart of Mars’
NASA is about to go on a journey to study the interior of Mars, according to a March 29 release from our favorite space agency. NASA detailed the next mission […]
Become a NASA Mission Control Leader: Space agency hiring new Flight Directors
Would you like to sit at the helm of human spaceflight and be responsible for the success of missions and the highly trained teams of engineers and scientists that make […]
NASA: Moonwalker and pioneer astronaut John Young, dead at 87
Astronaut John Young, who walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 and commanded the first space shuttle mission, passed away on Friday, January 5, at the age of 87 from […]
U.S. sending astronauts to the Moon, Mars ‘and beyond’
On December 11 at the White House, President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, a change in national space policy that provides for a U.S.-led, integrated program with private […]
NASA explains Earth’s recent record carbon dioxide spike
A new NASA study provides space-based evidence that Earth’s tropical regions were the cause of the largest annual increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration seen in at least 2,000 years. […]
